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dante93gtz
Explorer
Oct 26, 2017

Help me make sense of my vehicle's towing capabilities

I'm trying to best determine what my truck is (and is not) capable of hauling. We recently sold our F350 diesel in favor of something with 3 rows of seating. We bought a '14 Cadillac Escalade ESV AW...
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donn0128
Explorer II
Oct 26, 2017
Load it up like your going camping and drive across a set of scales. Look on the drivers door post and read the vehicles GVWR. Subtract the scaled weight from that. That is the Maximum tongue weight you can add. Using 12% of a trailers gross weight will give you a fair idea of its tongue weight. Are you over or under? Thats your answer.

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